
- Mark Charan Newton (Nights of Villjamur) talks about the Dying Earth subgenre of science fiction.
- Interviews & Profiles:
- To paraphrase Johnny from Airplane!: "There's a sale at Nightshade!" Buy Laird Barron's Shirley Jackson Award-winning collection, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories in trade paperback, and pick out any in-print Night Shade Trade Paperback for free! Offer ends Sunday, March 29, 2009.
- Free Fiction, courtesy of QuasarDragon:
- Mary Robinette Kowal has posted and illustrated (!) PDF version and an audio version of her Hugo-nominated story, "Evil Robot Monkey". The list of 2009 Hugo Awards finalists has been updated with the link.
- @Pyr: "A Book of Silences" by James Enge, a short story featuring Morlock Ambrosius, wandering swordsman and master of all magical makers, who appears soon in the novel Blood of Ambrose.
- "Petrified" by Scott Edelman. [PDF, via Bibliophile Stalker]
- @Kat and Mouse: "Easy Money" - Part Twelve by Abner Senires.
- @Hub: "Hush a Bye" by Beverley Allen.
- @Fantasy Magazine: "Jane" by Nicole Kornher-Stace.
- @Strange Horizons: "The Spider in You" by Sean E. Markey.
- David Brin is guestblogging at Sentient Developments this week. [via Futurismic]
- Would you like to be a character in the next Jennifer Fallon novel?
- At B&N, Paul Di Filippo reviews Liberation by Brain Francis Slattery, Fools' Experiments by Edward M. Lerner, One Second After by William Forstchen, and Enclave by Kit Reed.
- Elizabeth Moon has a poll about book covers.
- Gwenda Bond pointed me to turned me onto The Magic Distrcit, which offers up these choice posts:
- Charlie Fletcher's Stoneheart Trilogy, a young-adult fantasy book series, is headed for the big screen.
- Ellen Datlow and Kathryn Cramer have posted photo galleries from ICFA.
- Women are more avid readers of books than men, says the Telegraph. [via Juno Books]
- Futurismic looks at The modern writer's dilemma. Is it established wisdom that self-publication is de facto a bad thing?
- Cover art, step-by-step: See
- Greg Manchess painting the cover for Canticle by Ken Scholes.
- Something Awful has an ever-growing gallery of Star Wars as Classic Art. [via Look At This]
- Three Good Lists:
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